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Installing MySQL Connector/Python using pip v1.5

Installing MySQL Connector/Python using pip v1.5

The latest pip versions will fail on you when the packages it needs to install are not hosted on PyPI. When you try to install MySQL Connector/Python the usually way, you get following message is:

shell> pip install mysql-connector-python
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement
mysql-connector-python
Some externally hosted files were ignored
(use --allow-external mysql-connector-python to allow).

I have updated the download URL to include the MD5 checksum, and MySQL Connector/Python should now install using pip using following command: